Most people spend a lot of time online these days. A great deal of our reading material comes from various web pages on any give subject. Many times we stumble across things that interest us and we would like to read but we don’t have time when we find it. We think to ourselves, “I would really like to read that but I don’t have time right now, I’ll come back later,” only to go away and forget about it to never see it again. I’ve solved this problem with Evernote! Here’s how:
- I installed the Evernote plug-in for Safari (they also have them for IE and Firefox).
- I created a @read_later tag in Evernote.
- When I’m browsing and I see something that I want to read, but not right now, I just click the Evernote button in my browser to send it to my Evernote inbox.
- Later, when I’m processing my inbox, I can either read these web snaps or save them with the @read_later tag.
- If its good material for a sermon or article I can slap a “Sermon Thoughts” or “Article Ideas” tag on it too.
- Since I have Evernote on my iPhone I can catch up on my @read_later stuff when I’m waiting on appointments or any other downtime.
Evernote is a great way to capture and catalog just about any kind of information. After I read the stuff in my @read_later folder I just delete the tag and replace it with where I want that material to live permanently. Since there are no restrictions on how much stuff you can have in your Evernote account, only on how much you can upload per month, you can keep everything and always have it for future reference.
Hope this helps. Let me know what you think.
